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Originally Posted by MorganGrayson
20 fluid ounces in a pint?  |
Hi Morgan!
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/volume.htm
"'fl.oz' is the abbreviation for "fluid ounce". A fluid ounce of water weighs
one ounce in Imperial measurents although the American fluid ounce is
slightly different."
As I was tought at school, the Americans decided that it was too complicated having 20oz in a pint because everything else was in 16s - so they simply changed it (personally I think it was so stores could sell less stuff at the same price
. But that change stopped the US from using true 'Imperial' or 'British' measurements (even though they think they do : ) because everything from the pint upwards in liquid form only applies to the US - not the rest of the world!